Word: pets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banker Nichols' pet New Deal aversion is Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. His bank is the only one of 6,000 Federal Reserve members which has never paid an FDIC assessment. Last week Banker Nichols received a letter from Comptroller of the Currency J. F. T. O'Connor reminding him that the deposit insurance law becomes permanent June 30. Offering Comptroller O'Connor his compliments and a "one-way ticket to Dante's Inferno," Banker Nichols replied...
...local S. P. C. A. if he did not stop "prodding and beating" his circus lions. Said the S. P. C. A. agent: "Lions are the nicest and bravest animals in the world." Retorted Lion-Scarred Beatty: "He is perfectly welcome to come into the cage with me and pet the kittens if he thinks they are so tame...
...revealed the quality of British Justice, poetic and otherwise, last week as the windup of Bournemouth's famed "Mallet Murder" (TIME, April 22). When police burst into the home of Sentimental Lyric Writer Mrs. Alma Victoria Rattenbury, 38, who called her rich and aged husband by the pet name "Rats," they found him dying, found on the wooden mallet that killed him fingerprints of callow, adoring Chauffeur George Percy Stoner...
...fiery Wartime pacifism of James Ramsay MacDonald has long since mellowed into compromise. Compromise has made him Prime Minister of England, the King's good friend and pet lion of the Marchioness of Londonderry. To the hard-headed Conservatives of the National Government, led in fact by Stanley Baldwin, mellow Scot MacDonald is an ideal figurehead, never more so than now as it faces an oncoming national election. MacDonald, however, is far from well. Over & over the Conservatives have prepared the voters for MacDonald's final fade-out by slipping out rumors that he was about to resign...
...Indianapolis, Carol Douglas, 24, told police: "I came back from work at noon and my lunch wasn't ready. I took a few drinks and then took a short nap. When I awakened, my father-in-law asked me to shoot his pet dog which had been acting queerly. I got my gun and we went to the garage where I killed...